Improvement in pen-holders



UNITED STATES PATENT GEFICE PERCIVAL D. RICHARDS, OF WEST MEDFCRD,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,544, dated December8, 1874; application filed October 3, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, PERCIVAL D. RICHARDS, of West Medford, ofthe countyof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Pen-Holders 5 and do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a side elevation, Fig. 2 alongitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a transverse seetion, of a pen-holderas improved by me, the invention consisting in the combination of athree-sided prismatic or pyramidal handle and a rotary adjustablepen-socket or earryingtube arranged with such handle, essentially asshown and described.

In the drawings, A denotes the handle, which, especially where the thumband second and third fingers of the hand of the user are to bear, is tobe three-sided or triangular in transverse section, and to this end thehandle may, from its lower end upward, in whole or in part, be athree-sided prism or 'rustum of a pyramid. Vithin the handle, at itslonger end, and extending axially into it, is a cylindrical bore, a, 'toreceive a cylindrical pen socket or carrier, B, which should be littedclosely in the bore, bent so as to be capable of being revolved therein,to adjust or bring the pen to the proper position for writing, when thehandle is grasped between and by the thumb and second and third lingersof a hand.

The object of making the handle three-sided instead or" circular intransverse section is to enable it to be held to better advantage by thewriter, or, in other words, to lit the triangle, or approximatelytriangular space, made between the thumb and next two fingers whenclosed in the positions for holding a pen-handle; also, to prevent thehandle from rolling down an inclined table or desk.

Vith a handle of such description, it becomes necessary to extend itnearly down to the pen, and, consequently, the pen-carrier has to beinserted within the handle; and in order to adjust the pen to the handleproperly for different individuals, the carrier should turn in the bore,though it should lit thereto so closely as not to turn accidentally.

I do not claim a pen-handle made with liat surfaces, or triangular insection where to be grasped by the iingers of a writer. Nor do I claim around handle and a round pen carrier or tube with the handle inserted insuch tube.

I claim- In combination with a three-sided prismatic or pyramidalpen-handle, A, or one triangular in section where to be grasped by thelingers, a rotary adjustable pen socket or carrier, B, arranged withsuch handle substantially as specited.

PERCIVAL D. RICHARDS.

Witnesses lt. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

